Happy to see you still playing and now working on chapter 3 :).
Surprised you are having issues with the fish mini boss actually as there is nothing very tricky about this boss, it is more just about learning positioning and I guess also you have to be brave about how close you can place your ship to the boss (as the hitbox inside your ship is very small).
Can you practice just 3-2 in the Switch version of the game? This section is quite long and the mini boss is near the end so it might be a bit frustrating, but you can never practice 3-2 too much - it is the hardest section of the entire game to chain fully.
This is really the method you will want to learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtTCOpNQKy8 keep your eyes on your ship at all times and dont be drawn to looking at the boss :).

I cant wait for the season to start. Most of our front line look a bit rusty today, still getting over the World Cup and we could have scored four.
The interplay has been so quick and incisive.
We are definitely going to score a lot of goals again this year.

I think Allison is definitely the pick of all the available goalkeepers this summer (and I guess he should be for that price), but it is so exciting being a Liverpool fan these days. Breaking the world record for a defender and maybe now a GK in consecutive transfer windows.
I would be very surprised if we moved for a new centre back - think VVD / Lovren / Matip is decent strength in depth plus Klavan / Gomez available. A new CB would mean the end for Matip I guess, just seems to make more sense to keep him.

When was the last time you saw anything about a GK performance in a pre-season friendly? It is ridiculous, dont propagate it.
Klopp seems to want to keep Karius, and the final aside he had a good season for us last season. We are supposed to be the fans of the team with YNWA as our philosophy. He needs our support.
No idea who JakeFutbol is or why he thinks he knows more about what Liverpool need than our manager.
Here is a stats radar of Karius' performance last season compared to the average:
This is taken from a post in the pre Real Madrid game thread on RAWK (https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=340145.msg16059201#msg16059201). The whole post is worth reading too.

I assume you are talking about 4-2? I think it is a lot like 2-1 - things are so quick that it is very difficult to keep up so can be really daunting. If you played Guitar Hero / Rock Band it is like the really fast sections in that where your hands just cant keep up with what you want to do. You need muscle memory to help you which just comes from practice.
Try to break down the sections into mini sections and just focus on that - breaking it down into small chunks can help with your sanity as you will see improvement much faster.
The nice thing about both 2-1 and 4-2 is that one you have learnt the sections properly and your hands are happy to do it quick enough you can become really consistent at them and they will rarely pose you problems.

Yeah you pretty much always fire the homing missiles when there is only enemies of one colour on the screen OR you are right next to the only enemy of the opposite colour so can guarantee that will die first.
In some rare occasions you do fire with the closest 12 enemies (or 11 if you are insta killing one close to you) are all the same colour (in sections of 4-2 for example). You can rely on the fact that the closest enemies will be targeted but have to watch out because other enemies can accidentally die if they are in the arc path of the missiles.
In prototype mode there are a few exceptions to this where you can control your bullets to control the number of missiles you have but these are exceptions.

Haha I have been enjoying rereading this thread and hopefully a bit more traffic to the site but I don't dare touch ikaruga - I just don't have the time to dedicate these days and I couldn't cope with how bad I would be. I am really on a leather chair with a cat though :).
I would offer by way of advice and encouragement to any newcomers no matter how hard a section looks you can do it with practice. All the game takes is practice and dedication. It is so satisfying when it all comes together too.

None of the England goalkeepers are an improvement on Karius. Donnarumma has had a terrible season and I really dont think is a good option at this point. I think Allison is pretty much the only available goalkeeper who would be an improvement and he would cost a lot which I why I have been so pleased how Karius reacted during the second half of the season since it effectively stopped the goalkeeper being an issue that needed to be resolved in the summer and the money could be spent elsewhere where it is needed.
It is a shame these mistakes have opened up this issue again, I still remain hopeful he can get over it and stay in goal for us. Karius is quite a unique goalkeeper - he is very aggressive off his line and plays effectively as a sweeper and there are not many options to replace that unless we want to modify our tactics to change that.

You should have come joined the #ikaruga channel on irc or the gamfaqs ikaruga board before that. It is a time of my life I look back at with great fondness. I made a few friends that I still speak to today and the community was so positive and nice unlike pretty much every other video game community I have been involved in since.
Since it is a single player game and we are all competing against the computer effectively everyone was open to share their new strategies and ideas and we were all in a similar position to you - either at uni or just finished so had a lot of time on our hands :).

It was at http://www.ikaruga-atari.net/. The site went down not long after the competition finished which was frustrating as the game provided a code that let you upload your score to the site. We hacked the code so that our website also supported the code - the ikaruga community had some very talented people involved .
You need flash player to see the old content, try here: https://web.archive.org/web/20031230193143/http://www.ikaruga-atari.net/ (I cant see it as I dont have flash)

Maybe Klopp and his team know more about footballers and goalkeepers than you and you are wrong?
Since Karius has been back in the team he has played very well indeed - he has been one of the most effective goalkeepers in the premier league. I would post to his statistics to show this, but I know how much people in this thread hate stats!
His aggressive sweeper style will cause mistakes (e.g. vs Palace) but also prevents a lot of shots and danger. Obviously this doesn't account for his two poor mistakes tonight but your post bears no relation to reality.